|
Date
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Topic
|
Text Reading
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Other Assignments
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| PART I.
ENERGY |
| 3/31 |
Energy Flows & Human Energy Consumption
Lecture
Notes
Population Growth
|
Ch 1 |
Energy
Basics Module 
Energy
Consumption Module & Project
Historical
Perspective
Population
Growth Assignment
Solutions
To Problems
|
| 4/02 |
Fossil Fuels
Lecture Notes
Word format
|
Ch 2:2.1-2.3 |
Coal
A Brief Fossil
Fuel Primer
Energy
from Fossil Fuels
|
| 4/07 |
Fossil Fuels
Lecture
Notes
Word format
|
Ch 2: 2.4-2.7 |
Oil
Resources and Reserves Assignment
Looking for OIl and Gas
A
Prospecting Primer
Theory
of Distillation
Reformulated
Gasoline Use Under the 8-Hour Ozone Rule
Fuel Economy Impact Analysis
of RFG
Primer
on Gasoline Prices
Octane Rating
Exxon Valdez; Environmental
Recovery |
| 4/09 |
The Nuclear Processes
Lecture
Notes
Word format
|
Ch 3:3.1-3.6 |
Particle
Decays? |
| 4/14 |
Nuclear Power
Lecture
Notes
Word format
|
Ch 3.7-3.9 |
Some
Chemistry of Uranium
Uranium:A
Radioactive Clock
A
Fission Movie
About the A-Bomb
Chernobyl
Control the Power Plant
Fusion
Nuclear
Submarines
Tour
the Paducah Uranium Enrichment Plant
Depleted
UF6 Videos
Radioactive
Waste Management
Non-Electricity
Uses of Nuclear Energy
|
| 4/16 |
Three Mile Island
|
|
Energy Consuption Project Due
Three
Mile Island:The Inside Story
Nuclear Power
Plant Simulator Game
What
Happened a TMI:Step by Step
Chernobyl
Accident
|
| 4/21 |
Environmental Implications of Hanford
|
Take the virtual tour of the:
Hanford
Nuclear Reservation
USDOE
Hanford Site: First Five Year Review Report (may
be a long download on a home computer)
|
Population Project Due
Hanford
Clean-up Hits Bumps
One
Cleanup Project Finishes
Hanford
News Archive
|
| 4/23 |
Renewable Energy: Solar Energy
Lecture Notes
Word Format
|
Ch 4: 4.1-4.3 |
Oil Resources Project Due
Solar
Cells: How They Work
|
| 4/28 |
Renewable Energy: Solar Energy
|
|
Midterm Exam
file (to be used as word processor document) |
| 4/30 |
What's Up with the Weather
|
|
|
| 5/05 |
Renewable Energy: Geothermal
Exam #1 Due
|
Ch 4: 4.5-4.8
A Geothermal
Environment Field Trip need speaker/headphones (large file long download
on a slow computer hookup) |
Introduction
to Geothermal Energy
Geothermal
Energy from the Cascades
Geothermal
Energy Worldwide
Klamath Falls
Geothermal Field Development and Usage
Geothermal
Power Plant Virtual Tour
How
an Enhanced Geothermal System Works
|
| PART II.
ATMOSPHERE |
| 5/07 |
The Greenhouse Effect
Lecture Notes
|
Ch 6: 6.1-6.5 |
Earth's Radiation
Balance
Layer
Model Approx. of the Greenhouse Effect
Atmospheric
Structure & Circulation
Impact
of Clouds on Radiation Balance
Atmospheric
Composition, CO2
The
Carbon Cycle, Methane
Nitrous OxideGlobal
Warming Potential
Climate
System &Climate Predictability
Climate
Models
|
| 5/12 |
Oxygen Chemistry
Stratospheric Ozone
Lecture Notes
|
Ch 7
Ch 8: 8.1-8.3
|
Ozone
Ozone Hole Animations
Microwave
Ovens Churn Water |
| 5/14 |
Destruction of Ozone
|
Ch 8 8.4-8.7 |
Ozone
Depletion, History & Politics
Ozone
& the Atmosphere
Nobel
Prize Research
Man-Made
Chemicals, CFC's
Science of the Ozone
Hole
Nature's
Own Organohalogens |
| 5/19 |
Air Pollution (photochemical smog)
|
D.1-2
Ch 9: 9.1-9.2
|
Pollution from energy
consumption
Acidity
Acid Rain &
Forests
Urban
air pollution in the Arctic
Download SPOTS
Oxygenated
Gasoline
Watered
Down Hairspray
Book Review Instructions
|
|
5/21
|
Air Pollution (acid rain)
|
Ch 9: 9.3-9.4 |
Flue
Gas Desulfurization
Environmental
Effects of SO2 Trading & Banking |
| PART III.
HYDROSPHERE |
| 5/28 |
Properties of Water; Water as an Ecological Medium
Exam #2 Due
Midterm exam
file (Word .doc)
Link to Materials for Take-home
Exam
|
Ch 10-13 |
Water
AMD
Mitigation |
| 6/02 |
Water Pollution & Water Treatment
Book Review Due
|
Ch 14 |
|
| PART IV.
BIOSPHERE |
| 6/04 |
Pest Control |
Ch 15 & 16 |
Bioaccumulation
Organochlorine
Compounds
Should
DDT Be Banned?
Rachel Carson |
| 6/09 |
FINAL EXAM
DUE |
